Library PressDisplay is a web-based portal which provides anyone, from the casual reader to the formal researcher, access to over 3000 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60 languages."

As of March 2010, Ask a Librarian has logged over 208,000 live virtual reference sessions and e-mail questions." (Source: Ask a Librarian website at askalibrarian.org)

"COALA is a cooperative of libraries founded in the early 1980's for several municipal libraries in Palm Beach County, Florida to share automation resources and costs." It includes the City of Boynton Beach Library, Palm Springs Public Library, Lake Park Public Library, Village of North Palm Beach Library, and Delray Beach City Library. Check out their online catalog to find out what's available at their libraries.

DPLA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It is registered as a library in the state of Massachusetts.

"The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used..."

For a general list of its resources, download the Florida Electronic Library Resource Overview at the bottom of this page.

"As the local branch of the University of Florida, the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service office has access to the latest research and technology on more than 2,000 subjects of interest. The University's expertise is available to small business owners, farmers, builders, home owners, parents, children, and the general public."

ipl2 is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University. Sponsored by Intel and Sun Microsystems Copyright Notice (c) 1995 - 2008 The Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. (c) 2009 - 2012, Drexel University, All Rights Reserved.

"ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day." (Source: ipl2: Information You Can Trust, website at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/)

Palm Beach County Library System. All Rights Reserved."The Palm Beach County Library System was established in 1967. Today, the County Library System serves Palm Beach County through the Main Library, 14 Branch Libraries, a Bookmobile and a Library Annex. The Palm Beach County Library System continues to expand through our involvement with library networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web." (Source: "About the Library"/Welcome from John J. Callahan III, Library Director, Palm Beach County Library website, May 2010).

The Library for the Society of the Four Arts Library Program in Palm Beach "houses more than 75,000 books and periodicals, along with an extensive collection of DVDs and CDs. In addition, the Fine and Decorative Arts Collection offers extensive selections covering the topics of decorative and interior arts, photography, architecture, art, and art history. The library features free wifi throughout, on-site laptop usage and Kindle e-readers available for checkout. Notable collections include the personal library of Addison Mizner, among others, as part of the rare book room."

With encyclopedic content as well as computer and Web tutorials, "How To"... documents, and government resources.

Subject Guides

"The mission of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) is to provide public health leadership to improve cardiovascular health for all, reduce the burden, and eliminate disparities associated with heart disease and stroke...Fact sheets on heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, men and heart disease, women and heart disease, and more [are available]."

"GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. This free research database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 806,000 records and open access full text for more than 12,000 records.

The Everglades Digital Library is a collaborative project of Florida International University Libraries, the Florida Center for Library Automation, Everglades National Park, and other institutions. It is, "an evolving library of information resources relating to the South Florida environment. The scope of our collections includes scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational and interpretive materials, datasets, maps, photos, and a directory of other Internet sites relating to the greater Everglades."

The Florida Memory Project, as part of the Florida State Library and Archives of Florida, hosts 400,000+ individual records and images from select collections, most of them now digitized.

The Earth Observatory is part of the EOS Project Science Office located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

PubMed is part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health."PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites."

The Smithsonian Institute's Collections at http://collections.si.edu/search/Search over 2 million records with images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries

Value Line at http://www.valueline.com/Stock and investment reporting. Their mission is to provide investors with the most accurate and independently created research information available, in any format they choose, and teach them how to use it effectively to help meet their financial objectives.

To read eBooks via the World Public Library, current Lantana Public Library patrons should type in their inidividual Lantana Public library ID card number (not their Palm Beach County library ID card number!) and they will be logged in.

"The World Public Library Collection shelves more than 2,000,000+ PDF eBooks in 100+ languages, containing 125 of the finest eBook and eDocument collections published on the Internet today.

All of the eBooks are in PDF file format, and all Audio eBooks are in MP3 file format. These formats have been specially designed to be cross-platform compatible with all PCs, Laptops, PDAs, Kindle DX, Kindle 3 iPad/iPods, eReaders, and Smartphones.

The World Public Library is a non-profit literacy association. Funding for the World Public Library is made possible by members like you. Your financial support helps ensure that you can read and access the great literature of the world."

(You can browse the collection, check out with your library card, and download to PC, Mac®, and many mobile devices. To get started, you will need to install free software. For audiobooks, this is OverDrive® Media Console™. To read eBooks, you’ll need Adobe® Digital Editions. Titles can be enjoyed immediately or transferred to a variety of devices, including iPod®, iPad®, Nook®, Kindle, Sony® Reader™, and many others. EBook titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending period. There are no late fees!)

Perhaps the best-known internet publisher of great works of literature, reference, and verse, providing students, researchers, and readers with free access. Users may search for works in the Harvard Classics, World Factbook, Roget's International Thesaurus, Bartlett's Quotations, Fowler's King's English, Strunk's Style, Mencken's Languate, Cambridge History, The King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Brewer's Phrase and Fable, Bullfinch's Mythology, Frazer's Golden Bough, as well as anthologies of philosophers and thinkers including Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Freud, and literary greats, including Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gerald Manley Hopkins, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and W.B. Yeats, among others. Presidential inaugurals may also be found here.